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heh just started Ubik ! |
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Ubik is a killer. To me it's even better than Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. |
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hehe..there i was gonna wildly postulate about his visionary aphetamime fuelled warped stream of consiousness he often displayed in his longer works..but you guys know all about it.. oh..Yeah Ballard scifi is also some of the most poetic and Diamond Chiselled..his contemporary fiction is good but just not the same..all except for Crash that is:) But one of my favourite Scifi-ish books is by someone who is not even acknowledged as a scifi writer..The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter |
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Meho...I used to live with this guy who was totally into MM & Hawkwind...like seriously obsessed... ..hearing em every waking second for a year or 2 kinda turned me off..(and if it wasn't Hawkwind it was fucking Ozric Tentacles..)... So I've got a bit of a mental block when it comes to Hawkwind & MM...blame my old hippy landlord (my attempted murder of his dog was the outcome of all this...think I told you about that a while back...)... |
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dick lem |
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must check lem out |
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Hey, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are doing it again: http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/02-09/03.shtml |
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what .....i'm shocked .....no mention of the Frank Herbert?? or Robert Henlein (not sure of the spelling on that last name) those are my first *toe dippings* into scifi and i was hooked. Gibson and Vonnegut are amazing....and whoever mentioned Poe....well he's just about my favourite author. the subtle horror in his short stories just amaze me. |
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kurt vonnegut |
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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay just got republished and I know not many people know about it. everyone that likes Sci_Fi and fantasy should have this book ordered immediately after they finish reading my post! written in 1920, first novel to ever fully create a new world with TRULY alien laws and characteristics, with such visual intensity that I don't think has ever been matched even to this day, and I've read alot of books, scifi,fantasy,plain fiction whatever, this book is amazing and the Author is still pretty unknown, have only read one other of his books and am searching for all the rest. AkkadTheOrphicPriest |
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doh ofcoarse...Dune is an astounding creation.. |
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Yeah dude is quite simply incredible. Frank manages to cover every aspect of the planet without obscuring the plot. I would put him in the list though as he tended to waffle on towards ChapterHouse Dune (book 4). |
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"dune" not dude d'oh Oh all right he deserves to be on the list purely for the first book... |
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first book is it for me really..it was a complete testament..a bible even about his lovinlgly rendered cosmos..past that..he was just paying the bills.... |
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pity no-one's managed to make a decent film version of it though. Not that good science fiction should automatically be given the hollywood treatment tho... |
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Am I the only one in the world that actually likes Lynch's version?..he brought a sense dark perversion to it that just added a whole new dimension to the proceedings...and those costumes...incredible... |
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YES ! That was exactly what I loved about it and that's exactly what was missing in the mini-series (that and decent acting). I want lynch to remake it with round about the same cast and a minority report budget. It wasn't all that bad *Oh-my-god-best-film-of-time-must-make-pilgramage-to-see-th just a tad corney at times. It just didn't give me the is-on-the-big-screen-at-least-once-every-year-grooooll* effect that Blade Runner had on me. |
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hehe...Chapterhouse Dude, Children of Dude... :)... Dune does rock..(I even liked Lynchs much critised movie...)... |
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insert "but it didn't have that" after bad (cos I type too fast and generally make no sense whatsoever) |
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Wtf ? It totally ate my post ! bastards. + YES ! That was exactly what I loved about it and that's exactly what was missing in the mini-series (that and decent acting). I want lynch to remake it with round about the same cast and a minority report budget. It wasn't all that bad just a tad corney at times. It just didn't give me the *Oh my god best film of time must make pilgramage to see this on the big screen at least once every year drooooll* effect that Blade Runner had on me. + there. better. |
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stop apologizing for typing dude..mine is an atrocity..now i just shrug and go oh well..and go on to make more typos :) |
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I still think an edit post option would be nice. |
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Frank Herbert, nuff said. |
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Surely not only on the basis of Dune ? You read any Pkd ? |
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hehehe i loved DUDE!! too.....i mean herbert came up with a whole NEW language.....how cool is that!! jand .... i liked that lynch movie (eventhough it resembled the book NOT) and the new series they produced last year was good too. i dunno.....it was just very cool. i read all the DUDE books =0) *flea has GOOD taste* |
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yes combine the mini-series and the lynch film and you have a very good rendition. |
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Frank Herbert PKD HP Lovecraft (The Color Out Of Space) Harlan Ellison |
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me hates buks. expeshullee syins buks. |
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*NERD ALERT* frank herberts 'children of dune' on in 10 minnows on the SCI FI channel.........3rd part of a mini series that is kicking some serious ass. this book was sooooo good, but lemmie tell you this series can HOLD it's head up high! *NERD ALERT - OVER* =0)~ |
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Steve Perry - The man who never missed a great little sci-fi novel. this author also wrote some books for the ALIENS bookseries. |
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jules Verne is without a doubt the king of science fiction |
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Kim Stanley Robinson - the Mars Trilogy and the Orange County series. Love his stuff...... |
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and Heinlein....... |
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A Voyage To Arcturus is totally bizaare, an interdimensional vision in print. It affected my dreams for weeks after reading it. Great stuff! |
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My other authors: Dick Lovecraft Clarke Heinlein Bradbury Boris & Arkady Strugatsky I'm also working my way thru Sergei Lukianenko's "Labyrinth of Reflections" right now. |
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Michael Crichton Sphere was wonderful.... |
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I know im late and all but...easy...Orsen Scott Card...Or Douglas Adams |
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Charles E Fritch Mike Dolan Ray Bradbury Fritz Lieber Robert Bloch (not only sci fi) Harlan Ellison |
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Orson Scott Card |
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stanislaw lem NEVER gets enough credit. my favs are: stanislaw lem robert holdstock (somehow they always put him in scifi-shelf and give him sci-fi awards although his books aren't really scifi, expect that one) douglas adams brian w. aldiss and from a lighter point of view: harry harrison. i have always enjoyed steel rat and bill, hero of the galaxy |
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my favorite sci-fi author has got to be with vonnegut, jr at a close second.. while not all of his (RAW's) works fall easily into categories, they're mostly sold as sci-fi/fantasy.. the most notable of his books is probably the massively epic Illuminatus! Trilogy co-written with Robert Shea.. it's three books of conspiracies, secret societies, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, interdimensional entities with a taste for human souls, Epoch-spanning traditions of Magick, fnord, and even a Midget! also, he writes non-fiction books, mostly in the realm of sociology and psychology, but delving into areas such as quantum mechanics (and his own Quantum Psychology, which book provides excercises for groups to perform so they can test his claims for themselves) this man's books have literally changed my life.. or in the least, inspired me to make changes in my life myself. i highly recommend anything by him. |
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The only sci-fi I've ever read is Stephen Baxter's 'Titan'. It's about NASA's last mission before the end of the space programme, a one way trip to Titan. It's the most utterly depressing book I've ever read, but a very good read nonetheless. |
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Robert Sheckley! Dammit. |
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wolfgang hohlbein |
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me! heheh |
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philip k dick better than all ther rest |
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oh, wait, Andrey Kouzmine |
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george orwell "1984" bret easton ellis, a short story in "the informers" tom jenkinson "the squarepusher manifesto" plato "republic" dante "the divine comedy" franz kafka ...just about everything dostoevsky "dream of a ridiculous man" arthur c. clarke hermann hesse richard d. james in no paticular order of course |
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